... not for the advantage of the country that the Liberal party should be reduced to a helpless and despairing state, like the Whigs during the Napoleonic wars, or that Lord Beaconsfield should be placed upon an inaccessible height of power. Daily News.—lt ...

... opposite camps, and since then the house has been more than once divided. The thirteenth Earl—father to the Prime Minister—was a Whig all his life. The fourteenth Earl was an ardent Reformer in his youth, and, after an interval of Toryism, passed the Household ...

... illustrated by the invective poured out by Mr. Davitt upon Mr. Mitchell Henry, as being one of the most contemptible whitewashed Whigs now. masquerading in Parliament. ...

... cloture struggle, and perhaps, in addition, a .covert 'attempt to influence the Irish vote at the next general election. The Whig party view the whole thing with extreme uneasiness. They evidently consider the readiness of Mr. Gladstone to entertain any ...

... indefensible upon any constitiltional awl just principle. The arguments in its favour are inconsistent in themselves. IVorthern Whig.—We regard the result of the division as portentous, and are surprised at the great majority. One point is made clear, thst ...

... degrading system. But as for supposing that either the Ho wards, or the Fitz williams, or the Spencers, or any other of the old Whig houses, who this time last year succeeded in ousting Conservatives, are just as good Conservatives themselves as the men whom ...

... Braes and Jessie, the Flower o' Dumblane ; Mr. H. Winter, Soots Wha Rae and Bonnie Dandee ; Signor Ghilberti, Awa, Whigs, Awa and On to the Front ; Mr. Wm. Carter's choir, Blue Bells of Scotland, The Campbells are Coming, Ye Banks and ...

... ranks. One pupil-teacher about to leave for college wrote as follows in reply to a question in English history :— The names Whig and Tory came into use in the reign of John. The political principles which they represent are these : Ist. Tory. The principles ...

... supposed, for he went rather out of his way in the farewell speech to the Ontario deputations to signalise his attachment to the Whigs as the party of constitutional liberty. However, the battle has not been fought on such a. broad issue as that; but on the ...

... quietly without his interference? Even if Mr. Gladstone and his friends get into power he will refuse to lead them, and the old Whigs, headed by Lord Granville and Lord Hartington, are positively afraid of the oratorical fire-brand who is pledging his party ...

... with more highhanded arrogance than even William IV. showed in 1834, when he peremptorily dispensed with the services of the Whig Ministry. Sir Bartle Frere's answer, however, will probably be at once simple and sufficient; though it will probably surprise ...

... disorder again st the landlords. Referring to the recent utterance 6 at Birmingham, Lord Salisbury expressed surprise that Whig members of the Cabinet should apparently be to follow the Radical lead. The speech, taken as a vrbe les was certainly forcible; ...